Pittsburgh's National Books-to-Prisoners Program Needs New Home Fast!Rosemary C. Anderson
2014-05-23 8:44 PMSpring Grass Book'Em, a national books-to-prisoners educational charity, needs a permanent home - a building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After three moves in three years, we must again move within weeks to either a donated space or to a big building we put money down on for a permanent location. Thousands of prisoners are depending on us! (image/jpeg)

Super typhoon Haiyan is climate wake-up callAkbayan, Aksyon Klima, Yeb Sano
2013-11-14 9:07 AMIt seems these days that whenever Mother Nature wants to send an urgent message to humankind, it sends it via the Philippines. This year the messenger was Haiyan, known in the Philippines as Yolanda. (image/jpeg)

3rd Radical Mycology Convergence Callout!Radical Mycology Collective
2013-09-16 8:53 PMhe Radical Mycology Convergence is a unique gathering of mycologists, mushroom enthusiasts, and Earth stewards coming together to share skills and information on the numerous benefits of the fungal kingdom for humans and the planet. The RMC is a multiple-day long event consisting of workshops, presentations, and various projects using fungi and other organisms to remediate & restore damaged environments. (image/jpeg)

war ethic indoctrinationgeral
2013-09-04 8:54 PMSo long as the United States is at war, their power is preserved, and now that they have attained empire the USA must expand the war or fall, for the arts of peace they know nothing and have never engaged in any employment higher than torture & war. Aristotle. (image/png)

Torture by Design: Saying No to the Architecture of Solitary ConfinementRaphael Sperry interviewed by Angola 3 News
2013-08-17 8:33 PMFriday, August 16 marked the 40th consecutive day of a multi-ethnic statewide prisoner hunger strike initiated from inside the Security Housing Unit (SHU) of California's Pelican Bay State Prison. As the horror of solitary confinement comes under increasing scrutiny in the US and around the world, human rights activists are confronting this public health and safety epidemic from a variety of angles. One group, called Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility has... (image/jpeg)

"Almanac Trail" Concert Tour Kicks off in Pittsburgh July 12 with Anne Feeney!George Mann
2013-06-24 11:48 AMA night of labor music, history and education. "The Almanac Trail" tour covers 25 cities in 32 days, beginning in Pittsburgh with special guest Anne Feeney on Friday, July 12 at the US Steelworkers headquarters, 7 PM (social hour), concert at 8 PM. hear stories and songs from Woody Guhrie, Pete Seeger and others and learn about the growth of labor unions in the 1930s and 1940s! (image/jpeg)

PHILIPPINES: Millions of Votes for the Democratic LeftAKBAYAN - Citizens Action Party
2013-05-31 1:36 PMWhile the Commission on Elections has yet to announce the official results of the 2013 partylist elections, we would like to thank the Filipino voters and everyone who have made Akbayan Partylist's sixth straight electoral victory possible.
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Slaughter of Proletarians in Bangladesh: Capitalism is the Assassin!PCInt
2013-05-26 9:25 AMOn April 24 "Rana Plaza" a 9-storey building in an industrial suburb of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh (14 million), collapsed on about 3,500 workers (their number is not known precisely) working there. The building contained five textile factories, as well as a bank and many shops. The official present death toll is 1128, the number of injured is unknown. Most of the victims are women, who constitute 80 to 90% of the workforce in the Bangladeshi textile industry.
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Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz Files Lawsuit Protesting 22 Straight Years in Solitary ConfineAngola 3 News
2013-05-11 6:23 PMEarlier this week, on Wednesday, May 8, lawyers for Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz filed a federal lawsuit regarding his placement in solitary confinement for over 22 consecutive years. Last month, when a 30-day action campaign was launched, lawyers promised to file this litigation if Maroon had not been transferred into general population by the morning of May 8. (image/jpeg)

Reforming Prison’s Harshest Tactic –The Angola 3 case may help change the...Katti Gray, The Root (reprinted by A3 News)
2013-02-09 6:28 PMThe Angola 3 case may help change the arbitrary and sometimes abusive use of solitary confinement. "It's exactly the kind of movement on this issue that we've been pushing for," said attorney and law professor Angela Allen-Bell of Southern University Law Center. Allen-Bell is a member of the International Coalition to Free the Angola 3. (image/jpeg)

Freedom for Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3, After 40 Years in Solitary Confinement?Katti Gray, The Root (reprinted by A3 News)
2013-02-05 12:17 AMAfter four decades of solitary confinement in the nation's most populated maximum-security prison -- and one of its most historically brutal -- a member of the internationally known "Angola 3" has reasonable cause to expect that he will soon be released, his attorneys and supporters say. The request to set free Albert Woodfox, 65, is being heard by the same federal judge who in 2008 ordered that Woodfox be released, a ruling that Louisiana prosecutors successfully appealed and blocked. (image/jpeg)

Brazil: the perfect freedom of expression?Emilio José Lemos de Lima
2013-01-21 10:10 PM"I don't agree with only one of the words you say, but I will defend to the death your right to do so!"(Voltaire),
It is controversial the relationship between freedom of expression and the degree of development of societies.
Many seek to justify the repressive character of the current regimes as a price that must be paid for achieving progress.
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CPP condoles with victims of US school shootingCommunist Party of the Philippines (CPP)
2012-12-23 1:11 AMThe Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today expressed its profound sympathies to the family and friends of the victims of the mass shooting of 26 people, including 20 young school children and teachers in an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, USA last Friday.
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Philippines: Let’s All Work for a Better Party-List SystemAkbayan (Citizens Action Party)
2012-12-21 12:16 PMRecently, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) concluded its process of scrutinizing groups that will participate in the 2013 partylist election. It marked the end of a long and arduous process that the poll body has undertaken to cleanse the party-list system of fake partylist groups which have used and abused the system to advance their vested interests. (image/jpeg)

Brazil: Structural changes on the wayEmilio Jose Lemos de Lima
2012-12-17 9:25 PMShe also studies rebuilding the soil, flora, fauna and rainfall in semi-arid areas (see map!), Home to 18 million Brazilians and it occupies nearly one million square kilometers.This reconstruction will take place at very low cost, without engineering works, but supported on the natural succession of species, according to a technique called Agroforestry Regenerative Analog System (ARAS), developed and disseminated in Brazil by swiss citizen Ernst Götsch, who is in full activity. (image/jpeg)